Ke$ha Fans Petition to Free 'Pop Puppet' From Dr. Luke's Evil Grasp

Fears arise that her career may "Die Young" if it is stifled further

Ke$ha fans have started a petition to free the pop starlet from her alleged eight-album contract with Dr. Luke, arguing that the mega-producer "is controlling Ke$ha like a puppet, feeding her what she doesn’t want and her creativity is dwindling."

Those who appreciate Kesha Rose Sebert as more than just another nasally quasi-rapping lady-voice on the radio (we see you Karmin) have long suspected that the Nashville artist-provocateur has more to offer than, say Warrior. While her sophomore album wasn't a bust, it didn't live up to the pre-release bombast about "cock rock" and glitter-piss. What's more, Ke$ha has shown promising signs of independence, like having her dancers troll the despicable Westboro Baptists.

But, petitioner Rebecca Pimmel suggests in her increasingly successful call-to-arms, "When Ke$ha, young and naive at the age of 18, was signed to Luke's 8 album contract, it's obvious that she was unaware of the severe pop puppeteer act she was soon to play by. What our fear as her fans should be is that she will soon lose interest in playing this industry game and stop releasing music under the tyrannical finger of Dr. Luke."

She invokes not only Ke$ha's My Crazy Beautiful Life as evidence — "[She] makes it clear that ... Dr. Luke, is stunting her from growing as an artist by making her sing the same generic, predictable, recycled, pop song." — but the name of Oklahoma freak-king and Flaming Lips mastermind Wayne Coyne,, referring to a Billboard interview in which he implies that she struggles with not having the sort of creative freedom that he does.